Cydia Impactor VS Cydia

Sideloading can only be as safe as the user is knowledgeable, but it only uses Apple’s existing restrictions so no rules are broken and no exploit is required like a jailbreak. Current sideloading options are AltStore (https://altstore.io), appDB with their Rickpactor (https://appdb.to), iOSgods with Sideloadly (https://iosgods.com), and Cydia Impactor if you have a paid Apple developer account... Source: about 3 years ago

Functionally it is not perfect, it is entirely dependent on cydia.saurik.com being alive. Once that goes down, cydia is dead. Source: about 1 year ago

Hi, I have just re-installed Cydia on my iPhone 4 running 7.1.2 for the first time in about a year and it's saying "Unable to Load (The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be cydia.saurik.com which could put your confidential information at risk.". Source: over 1 year ago

Https://cydia.saurik.com/ is the only official cydia website. Source: over 2 years ago

The site you linked to (hxxps://cydia-app.com/) is unofficial, links to piracy and spyware sites, and should not be trusted. The official Cydia site is http://cydia.saurik.com/ but it doesn't include much information about Cydia and jailbreaks. To find out what jailbreaks are available for your device, check the r/Jailbreak wiki. (https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/wiki/ios/canijailbreak). - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

If Apple provided a blessed way to install Cydia[1] without jailbreaking, I would be a customer again in no time. [1]: https://cydia.saurik.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago